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Tempera/chalk painting

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate and accurately interpret with cupporting evidence the artwork of Claude Monet. They choose what they will paint. Students draw a rough draft on paper. They produce interseting looking "brush strokes", where...
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Good Words are Better than Bad Strokes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research negative campaigns and propaganda and then interpret characters from Julius Caesar in that light. In this negative campaign lesson plan, students take the character and create visual images to depict the characters in a...
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Touch-Drawings

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore an object without seeing it then draw what s/he felt.  In this touch-drawings lesson, students partner and place objects in a paper bag so the other person cannot see it.  Then students use their hands and imagination to...
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Solar Hot Dog Cooker

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Young scholars create a solar hot dog cooker. In this solar energy lesson, students use various materials such as tin foil and cardboard to build a hot dog cooker. Young scholars cook their own hot dogs.
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Polarization

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders study the basic facts of polarization.  In this light waves instructional activity students demonstrate some activities illustrating interference patterns. 
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Drawing On Gray Toned Paper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create an artwork that uses organizational principles and functions to solve a visual arts problem. The piece creates the illusion of transparency used to unify a work of art that demonstrates that light advances and darks recede.
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Passion for Change

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect upon traditional, cultural, or ritualized events. They research and document the evolution of a familiar tradition or ritualized event and creatively represent the changes to the tradition.
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St. Michael, Prince of the Celestial Armies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers describe this work of art as reflecting the beliefs of Mexicans in the viceregal period. They create their own sculptures in a lightweight material that shows themselves in an active pose.
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September 12 Journal Writing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write journal entries reflecting on their feelings about the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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James Van Der Zee

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize James Van Der Zee as an outstanding photographer who documented and reflected life in Harlem during the 1920s. They identify important aspects of Van Der Zee's life and artwork and compose and shoot their own...
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Solar Energy: Become a Sun Chef!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars design and construct a solar cooker. They use the Internet to research solar collectors and the process of changing light energy into heat energy.
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The Fog Won't Cloud Your Artist's Eye

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils examine art that shows some type of weather event. After watching two filmstrips on weather, they create a fog picture of themselves and read about lighting and thunder. They paint pictures in the style of five artists they have...
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Tessellating Tiles

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders Make, name and describe, using their own language and the language of geometry, everyday shapes and objects. They create and talk about geometric patterns which repeat (show translation), or which have rotational or...
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Modeling Day and Night

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars complete a science experiment to study the role of night and day on sleep patterns. In this sleep patterns activity, students brainstorm about night and day and the causes for the rotations on Earth. Young scholars work in...
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Magnificent Monet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the water lily paintings of Claude Monet and the impressionistic art period. They create their own impressionistic art works and display them in the classroom.
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Georgia Aquarium

The Ocean's Nursery

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Linear perspective, estuaries, and water ways converge in a science-inspired art project. The class uses what they've learned about eco-systems, estuaries, and the food chain to create scale models of a local marsh. While the...
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Fun With Sun Protection

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create sun protection devices by modeling sunglasses invented by native people of the Arctic and study about protecting the body from sun exposure. They write a small paragraph explaining and justifying why they believe a...
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A Grand Showing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students promote philanthropy. In this service learning lesson, students create video documentaries based on service learning projects they completed and then share the video with their peers and community. 
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Using Plant Pigments as Natural Dyes

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. In this plant lesson student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and quilt...
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MAPPING THE TOPOGRAPHY OF UNKNOWN SURFACES

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students describe in words and graphic displays the elevation or depression profile of sections of Mars' Olympus Mons and/or Valles Marineris. They explain how orbiting spacecraft build up global maps one data slice at a time.
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Hot, Hot, Hot, Cold

For Teachers 2nd
Learners dance the image of falling snow. They move, swing, fall, and rise to music working to depict snow falling, the sun, and high/low movements. This is a well-thought out lesson that aids them in seeing movement as a form of...
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Lesson: Paul Chan: Alternumeric Fonts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learning to analyze language, symbols, and codes is part of becoming a deep and critical thinker. Young analysts consider their ability to see hidden messages as they analyze the work of Paul Chan. There are two fully developed...
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Lesson Plan: A Miniature Game

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Art inspires art, as children work to understand artistic forms that come from the imagination. They analyze the installation piece, Fox Games and then discuss the design process. They then use clay to create imaginative dioramas,...
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Ice in Action

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Make your own bite-size glacier! A resource teaches about the formation and melting of ice. Activities include videos, a hands-on activity where your pupils build glaciers, and a photographic analysis to teach individuals the chilling...

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